Re: Please don't remove outdated translations if the difference isvery small
On Fri, Jul 09, 2004 at 01:47:21AM +0200, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 09, 2004 at 12:22:19AM +0100, Peter Karlsson wrote:
> > No, I'm not trying to punish you, nor the Spanish translation team,
> > and I'm not making this into a pissing contest. I am trying to help
> > Debian provide a good service to its users. Having outdated
> > information on our website is not providing a good service, which has
> > been proven over and over again. There will be some collateral damage
> > in the process, yes, but on the whole it is a good thing.
>
> Blindly removing content without verifying it is indeed outdated is no
> service to our users. I would like you to be aware that this actually has
> happened (I can produce examples if you like) and that this doesn't provide
> a good service to our users either.
I wonder if more time is wasted for the translators who sometimes have
to resurrect content, or for the users who turn up on #debian-boot
having wasted hours of effort because five translations still link to
the broken sarge CD images from fsn.hu ...
(Possibly a bad example since the English version was "only" changed a
week ago, mind you.)
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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